The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.91

c9.91

(²) Is it worth while to observe that nowhere, either in these representations or in those considered above, have we found any trace of an attempt at an artistic realization of the fancies imagined by the editor of the Hien-yu-yin-yuen king? Never, in particular, do we see rays which open out into lotus bearers of illusory Buddhas burst from the « pores of the skin », or from the « navel », of the principal character, as is written in SCHMIDT'S translation from the Tibetan Dzang-lun (Der Weise und der Thor, pp. 82 and 84).